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Internet application development -- cheap and easy. S kills : none Concepts : application program interface (API), platform, ecosystem, Internet infrastructure (cloud) services, application development cost trend, end user application development trend.
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Internet application development -- cheap and easy Skills: none Concepts: application program interface (API), platform, ecosystem, Internet infrastructure (cloud) services, application development cost trend, end user application development trend This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation • User skills
Why its cheap and easy 2. The cloud 1. The ecosystem
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
Why its cheap and easy 2. The cloud
Self-study questions • Two strategic factors make developing a new Internet service cheap and quick – describe them. • Google and Facebook have APIs for developers wishing to build applications on top of their services and databases. Give examples of some of the capabilities they provide to developers. • Yelp uses Amazon’s Web services for their site. Read this case study: • http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/and answer these questions: • How much traffic does Yelp handle? • Briefly describe the Amazon services that Yelp uses. • What are the business advantages to Yelp in using Amazon’s Web services? • Are there any business disadvantages?
Resources • Twitter’s instructions and documentation for developers using their API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554648/FrontPage • Amazon Web Services:http://aws.amazon.com/ • The business case for Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/economics/ • Yelp case study using Amazon Web Wervices: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/yelp/ • Other Amazon Web Service case studies:http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/ • Blog post on infrastructure services: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-services-for-developers.html • Stanford class quickly builds applications on the Facebook platform: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all